Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[hymen man]

Top of your list:

The Wire
Arrested Development
Mad Men (you will need to have patience and get in touch with characters to really grasp and like it for what it is)
Boardwalk Empire
House of Cards

Second tier:

LOST(First 4 seasons are classic, but then it sort of falls off towards the end and if you let most of NT tell it, it was the worst finale ever .. but I enjoyed it)
The Americans (Great new show, keeps you on the edge of your seat
Curb
Dexter
Louie
The League (I added)
Entourage (Also sort of dipped towards the final few seasons)


Third:

Luther (I added)
The Killing (everyone here will tell you it sucked because of all the red herrings and the never ending story of the first case.. but MrONeg and I really liked it )
American Horror Story
Prison Break

The rest I haven't seen so I can't really comment.. but for the ones I feel you should definitely at least give a shot to are the The Wire, Arrested Development (season 4 starts up on Netflix on May 26th), Boardwalk Empire, and at least the first 4 seasons of LOST, and the Americans.

Mad Men is really not for everyone, but if you find yourself caring for the characters after the first few episodes, you'll be glad you stuck with it. Great cast/acting
House of Cards is the same way, it's a political power drama.. driven by some great acting by Kevin Spacey.

 

[hymen man]

Andrew Garfield to star in Martin Scorsese's long rumored Silence, production kicks off next summer - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-2XH

I heard DDL was attached to this for the longest time. I like Garfield but to replace DDL with him is a bit of a leap.. I still have faith, I think Garfield will really be a star even after his SM days are done.

 

[jpzx]

Problem is I'm so in to Sons of Anarchy right now, Season 2 is heating up. Although, I see that Arrested Development is just 20 minutes without commercials on Netflix, so maybe I can just plow through that with a quickness. Didn't even know Michael Cera was attached to that...?

The Americans, House of Cards, and Game of Thrones are at the top of my list. I know Cards is, but is/are The Americans on Netflix?

Anybody ever feel overwhelmed by how many great TV shows there are to watch... when it should really just be a relaxed and a fun hobby?

These goddamn white supremacists in SOA man.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Blowing up vans and possibly killing my guy from The Gladiator.

 

[Nawzlew]

You could go through Blue Mountain quick too.

Weeds, meh, I couldn't really get into it. I watched the pilot and wasn't all that interested in it.

Boardwalk Empire is fantastic. I still need to catch up.

GoT is amazing, guarantee you'll plow through seasons 1 and 2 in a week

I love Mad Men, arguably my favorite show right now. It's slow, yes, but there's a lot of character development and drama. Love the visuals.

Prison Break is cool, it kinda teetered off for me after season 3 though.

Entourage, one of the GOATs.

Watch Archer. Please.

If you're cool with cartoons, Boondocks and The Regular Show are good.

 

[lawdog1]

Entourage, one of the GOATs.

Seasons 1-4, yes. After that, not as much.

Of the other shows on the list, these are the only ones that I watched regularly and would consider must watches:

LOST (except the last episode. The first two season are best, IMO. The pilot is especially amazing)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Boardwalk Empire

I watched a couple seasons of Weeds and found it to be hit and miss. There were some episodes I enjoyed and some I didn't like at all. I never considered it great.

 

[jj watt]

Six Feet Under is def worth a watch..... underrated show.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

weeds is worth watching just stop when nancy gets involved with mexico. those first two or three seasons were hilarious and cool. what kinda black guy is named conrad anyway?

curb should be on everyone's tier 1. that show is comedy gold.

 

[iYen]

Add fullmetal alchemist brotherhood to your list. Somewhere in the top tier.

It's the best show that I've seen.

 

[jayfiend]

Just finished watching "Silver Linings" and I thought it was really really good.

I loved Jennifer Lawrence before...

But I'm in love with her now...

 

[big j 33]

4 Sport Scenes in Movies (by People Who Don't Watch Sports)

 

[johnnyredstorm]

i wrote a blood type style review of that teen mom tape and they go and lock the thread smh. now how dudes gonna know not to spend money on this sloot.

 

[jpzx]

You could go through Blue Mountain quick too.

Watch Archer. Please.

If you're cool with cartoons, Boondocks and The Regular Show are good.

Yeah Blue Mountain is one that I watch sort of before bed or to prep for the weekends in college. Gets me amped up. Thad's obnoxiousness and Moran's sarcastic responses to it are hilarious.

Archer? What's that?

No, I'm good on cartoons. Not saying I'm above them, but just think I could never get into them.

Six Feet Under is def worth a watch..... underrated show.

Forgot that one. Older now though, no? On my list as well now. Thanks for that.

weeds is worth watching just stop when nancy gets involved with mexico. those first two or three seasons were hilarious and cool. what kinda black guy is named conrad anyway?

curb should be on everyone's tier 1. that show is comedy gold.

That's my problem though, if I start a show and get into it, I usually HAVE to finish it. Even if I take years off from watching it, I still have it in the back of my mind that I'm going to get around to it. So don't think I could stop in Mexico if I ever got that far, would need to see the final conclusion.

And Curb is hilarious. It's like watching a R-rated Seinfeld without the dreaded laugh track.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

but jpz, trust me, you really won't want to watch afterward. it gets so stupid and nancy gets so selfish, it's just for the best then, to avoid it all together. i'm mad at how poorly they executed those last couple of seasons and i'm ever angrier i watched them.

 

[jpzx]

Gotcha. Seen one episode of Weeds actually (have first season on Blu Ray, like $5 at Pawn America in it's plastic seal so I determined that to be a damn steal), and thought it was real weird.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

at Nealon buying weed from her at a soccer game, and then his son selling it on the playground there too. But the whole thing with the kid being gay, and making out with a 60-year in a hot tub, I was like c'mon. This is so odd and far-fetched, seemed like a stupid way for the writers to have her gain leverage on the kid, and that just turned me off.

 

[venom lyrix]

Trailer for Ender's Game - http://afterthecut.com/2013/05/07/trailer-enders-game/

 

[johnnyredstorm]

That was weird JPZ but I don't think they ever mentioned it again after that episode. Pretty sure you only see Nealon with his family like 4 times on for the rest of the series. Really, he was the only reason I watched. Dude was hilarious as a stoner.

 

[x Buddha Bless x]

Oh I also In Time with Timberlake. Another movie where the concept and idea I liked a lot but it's clear the writers were going for something else with this. I liked how they hit the right beats to explain out the premise and loved the gambling. After 30 minutes it turned in to the poor man's Bonnie & Clyde and the whole concept of trying to be immortal and the greed of it all completely broke down. The motive of the dude who played Scarecrow was weak too.

Somebody could did so much more with it.

Anne looks ugly in that pic, sorry. The hair is mainly throwing me off but I was never really in to her. Realized that after seeing the movie where she's banging Jake Gyellenhall a lot.

 

[mronegative]

I'm sort of obsessed with TV shows/Netflix/HBOGo all of that... put together a list of shows I need to watch.

Would love to get some feedback on ones you see that I could skip, maybe reaffirm any, or alert me of any I could be missing out on:

The Americans -- I absolutely love this show. Best new show on TV. One of the 3 or 4 best shows on TV, period.

Sons of Anarchy -- season 2 is the peak of the show. season 3 is the pits. 4 is somewhere in between, 5...a little less than that. It's fun, and it's kinda badass and awesome at times, but try not to take it too seriously, or hold it to that Sopranos standard or even season 2 standard of what it could've been.

House of Cards -- It's what Newsroom and Boss wanted to be. It's a passively great show. It creeps up on you. The first 2 episodes are the pilot, and if you feel it starting to glide, understand that the last 3 or 4 episodes make it. It's a show that keeps getting better every couple episodes.

Louie -- Just do it. **** is wrong with you?

Nathan For You -- read what I said about Louie, 2 times. I promise you'll watch the whole season in 1 sitting.

The Killing -- Die.

Sherlock -- There's nothing like it. The Good Wife is the closest I can think of a show that's so comfortable with it's own intelligence, and modern in unexpected ways. It's not really a TV series, as much as it's a series of film/cases. Both of the middle cases (2nd episodes) haven't been that great, but the 1st and 3rd of both seasons, have been 4 of the best written, acted and realized episodes of anything on TV the last few years.

Heroes (not sure on this one) I am. It's not worth it. The honeymoon ends right before the first season does, and it's slow-burning misery with moments of what could've been season after season.

Entourage -- What hurts the show for me, is that I so much wanted it to be the show it was the first season, always. But eventually it just turned into a kinda post-modern sitcom about rich guys getting everything they want. It was about working class guys hitting it big, and riding their lottery ticket for all it was worth. That culture clash of the LA bubble and the place they came from. Every hole in the road they were gonna trip into. It was about friends like brothers and how they dealt with success, swimming with the ***-kissing sharks of Hollywood. And it had this REACH to it. It reached into the pit of Hollywood. They had an endless suppy of big name cameos and I thought ideas. It should've been the next great American show, but like a lot of interesting, thoughtful things in Hollywood...eventually once enough time and effort goes in, it dumbs down and just wants to be popular.

And then it just became ******* and cameos...(Werner Herzog was amazing)...and stupid side businesses that almost always work and easy jokes about show biz. Vince became a side character, Ari Gold became the lead and Turtle and Johnny Drama just had wacky adventures on the side. E was there. He shouldn'ta been, but he was. It could've been The Social Network before The Social Network. The real Once Upon a Time in America. But at the end of the day, all it wanted to say was...wouldn't it be awesome to be rich and famous and bring your friends with you?

There WAS a moment...when Vince's movie flopped and he was almost on the outs of the business. There was a moment when it could've come back and been something meaningful...but then they got him a big new movie and it was all good again. It went kinda full ****** after that, to the point where Jeremy Piven was the only person you could tolerate, but it is what it is. His wife was bangin.

Mad Men - Iono.

Weeds - Nah...2 seasons of piff. 2 seasons of stems and seed. Then 2 seasons of just ditch. Straight ditch.

LOST - It's one, amazing 5 season story. Nothing like it before, no one touching it since. It set the standard for ensemble genre shows for the next 2 decades. There will never be another. Not ever. NOTE: Some people might tell you there were 6 seasons. Those people hate you and hope your kids get polio.

Boardwalk Empire -- I guess I'm just different, but this show is boring as hell to me. And for me, it's because Steve Buscemi is just not that role, and everything folds around him.

American Horror Story -- Do it...you'd be surprised. The first season is a struggle, because it seems like a kid with down's syndrome flinging **** at the wall and someone filming whatever stuck. But then there's one episode...like 9 or 10, that starts in a school. And suddenly you realize, they've actually had a plan this whole time. It's actually good. I gotta finish the 2nd season...

Arrested Development -- *slap*

The Wire -- I don't know how I feel about The Wire. It's the new Roots. It's just understood, that you're not a real, modern American human adult if you haven't watched it. It is culturally significant. Because in every walk of life, most injustices have been touched on and can be referenced to or even quoted from The Wire, to where everyone around simply understands. It's not real life, but it's a reality that's very important to be aware of. And the quotables. And just about every character is iconic in one way or another.

Prison Break -- great miniseries. In and out in 20-some episodes.

 

[mronegative]

i wrote a blood type style review of that teen mom tape and they go and lock the thread smh. now how dudes gonna know not to spend money on this sloot.

 

[Nawzlew]

You could go through Blue Mountain quick too.

Watch Archer. Please.

If you're cool with cartoons, Boondocks and The Regular Show are good.

Yeah Blue Mountain is one that I watch sort of before bed or to prep for the weekends in college. Gets me amped up. Thad's obnoxiousness and Moran's sarcastic responses to it are hilarious.

Archer? What's that?

No, I'm good on cartoons. Not saying I'm above them, but just think I could never get into them.

 

[kevin cleveland]

Weeds - Nah...2 seasons of piff. 2 seasons of stems and seed. Then 2 seasons of just ditch. Straight ditch.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

that weeds breakdown is gold, so on point with the show

 

[JCMojica24]

Weeds was so good those first few seasons then it completely went down the crapper...those last 2 to 3 seasons were a chore to get through.

 

[lawdog1]

Weeds was so good those first few seasons then it completely went down the crapper...those last 2 to 3 seasons were a chore to get through.

If you're into hate watching shows, the last 2 seasons of Weeds could qualify for that.

 

[licensed to ball]

Friday Night lights the series is a must watch.

All 5 seasons are great, but it starts the strongest and ends the strongest.

Great acting all around, very entertaining.